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Actions intensify the danger of nuclear war in the Asia-Pacific.

Dr. Simone Chun serves on the Steering Committee of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned About Korea and is a member of the Korea Policy Institute and the Korea Peace Network.

Biden Must End Sanctions Against North Korea — and Finally End the Korean War   Simone Chun, Truthout 21 May 21, Noam Chomsky recently argued that the Biden administration’s foreign policy remains committed to maintaining U.S. global hegemony through sanctions and nuclear weapons. Nowhere else in the world is this more evident than in the Korean Peninsula, where the U.S. is pressuring its “ally” South Korea into the front lines of a long-simmering confrontation with China, and where a nuclear standoff between the U.S. and an increasingly isolated North Korea remains a real po...

SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service North Korea Becomes Latest Nation Driven into Famine by Economic Sanctions April 28 , 2021 (EIRNS)—There are reports now that North Korea—a nation which lost anywhere from 1 to 3 million of its 22 million of its people to famine in the 1990s—is heading towards a new famine, under the combined assault of the coronavirus and some of the tightest sanctions imposed on any country in the world. South Korean Unification Minister Lee In-young has been warning for some months of the danger of “extreme famine” in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong ...